Church Meets To Unite Jews, Christians

HOLLYWOOD -- Israel has great religious signficance for both Christians and Jews.

So Cornerstone Christian Church will focus on Israel in a three-day conference, beginning July 31, in hopes of sensitizing the Christian community to the Jewish state and its heritage.

The free conference, ``To Israel with Love,`` is the church`s effort to make Christians support and appreciate Israel.

``It is my prayer that this conference will bring enlightenment and revelation,`` church Pastor Dominick Avello told church members.

The conference will feature worship services and prayer. Conference leaders also will demonstrate the blowing of the shofar, or ram`s horn, the traditional instrument for sounding in the Jewish New Year.

Guest speakers will include film producer Jay Rawlings and Johann Luckhoff, director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, an organization co- sponsoring the event with the church.

Lectures will be at 7:30 p.m. on July 31 and Aug. 1, and at 10 a.m. on Aug. 2.

All presentations will be at Hollywood Hills High School, 5400 Stirling Road.

Luckhoff will speak on July 31 and Rawlings will speak on Aug. 2.

An offering will be taken to aid resettlement of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews in Israel, church officials said.